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Chicago examiner vol xv no 118 a m tuesday Chicago may 8 1917 tuesday n.s Â»#Â«<Â». price one cent toch b ss ) f d w cs?l wilson acts to curb free speech by james j montague secret session forced in senate on ship dictatorship shows plans of the administration if espionage bill wins fight against rigid censorship gains new strength defeat or modification of measure as sured say leaders vxtashington may 7 just yiv how much the puhllc will * ' know about the conduct of the war if the censorship law passes the senate was made clear hy the proceedings of that body to-day instead of taking up the fight on the press g^g proposal the senate spent the entire afternoon iii secret session at the behest of the admin istration the business on hand was the embargo clause of the espionage bill in a frantic offort to retain con trol of all shipping during the war secretary lansing after turning off the light of pitiless publicity from the proceedings of the senate re quested that his clause of the espion age measure be passed exactly as drawn under his direction reluctantly consent to secret session reluctantly the senate consented to work for this once in the dark the measure was taken up and the amendment of senator smith of georgia which deprives the presi dent of the absolute power on which be has insisted was withdrawn at the end of the four-hour star liamber session the smith amend ment had been modified it will be passed in some form or other to morrow the entire incident indicates that the administration for reasons of its own is willing to conduct clandes tinely the business of the whole peo ple during the greatest crisis ln the history of the republic debate on the vital provision of the espionage law was necessarily deferred the fight against govern ment throttling of free speech has continued steadily the very fact that the administra tion can under the present procedure muzzle the united states ' senate gained recruits for the battle against any added powers senate helpless to inform public unusual and almost unprecedented as were to-day's proceedings it is admitted the senate will be helpless to keep the public informed as to what is going on ln the country if the muzzle is to be applied continually as it was to-dtfy all that is neces sary is for some administration lob byist to ask for the gag and it will be applied senators johnson and borah who will lead the fight against the con cealment of all government informa tion were ready to go into action when the session of the senate was called at noon to-day with them were more than thirty other senators all of whom are willing to fight to the last ditch rather than see such a curtain of secrecy as was to-da gen joffre's train wrecked envoys escape inquiry baggage car overturned short distance from bridge over deep gully steel coaches prevent loss of life secret serv ; ce agents start in vestigation accident say rail road men loose coupling pin is blamed conspiracy scouted arcola 111 may 7 the spe cial train bearing general joffre former premier vlvi anl and other members of the french mission eastward after a tour of the middle west was wrecked in the middle of a corn field midway be tween areola and fllson 111 at 7:30 to-night several persons suffered slight bruises but none of the members of the french party was injured the cause of the wreck is not yet known pennsylvania railway em ployes who made an examination of the wreck by lantern light expressed the opinion that the cars were de railed accidentally secret service men began an immediate investiga traveling forty miles an hour the train was speeding eastward at the rate of forty miles an hour after leaving springfield 111 where general joffre and m viviani laid :: wreath on the tomb of abraham lin i coin late this afternoon fifty miles northwest ot terto haute ind the tender of the sec ond locomotive of a double-header suddenly left the rails the baggage car immediately behind lunged over on its side and fell crosswise of the rails a tangled mass joffre at dinner table dishes hurled into lap the pullman car bearing news paper correspondents immediately behind the baggage car crashed into the baggage car and left the rails but did not turn over the dining car next behind left the tracks with a crash but the compartment car in which the secret service men were riding and the observation car quar tering general joffre and former premier viviani remained on tho rails general joffre and m viviani were at dinner when the crash came the dishes on the table before them were hur.ed into their laps general joffre was thrown back in his seat but recovered his poise in a moment and rising peered out 1 the window into the gathering dark ness neither he nor m viviani bc i trayed the slighest trace o excice ] ment j joffre shows no fear loose coupling pin blamed the secret service men scenting a plot rushed into the dining car and escorted general joffre and m viviani into the observation car ia the rear then they leaped from the observation platform and j m _\_\ 10,800 railway men are ordered to france Chicago workers will go hunt war department asks volunteers ' to repair roads behind the battle lines will go in ger man ships seized by u s washington may 7 an expe ditionary force of 10,800 composed entirely of railroad workers under the leadership of officers of the unit ed states engineer corps will be the first men to carry the stars and stripes overseas they will be sent to france to work on the lines of communications behind the battle front orders to recruit the force immediately were issued by the war department late to-day nine regiments will be formed each officered by a colonel and adjutant from the engineer corps the other officers will be selected from among the recruits the first 10,000 as they are al ready being called in the war de partment will be secured entirely through volunteer methods they will not be a part of the engineer corps even though flying the pen nants of that organization they will be transported to france probably in several of the german ships seized by this government seek recruits in Chicago special offices to recruit the corps have been established in new york Chicago st louis boston pitts burgh detroit atlanta san fran cisco and philadelphia all railroad centers the war department announce ment concerning the new corps fol lows the war department has sent out orders for the raising as rapid ly as possible of nine additional regiments of engineers who are destined to proceed to france at the * earliest possible mement for work on the lines of communication it is requested of the press that no speculation or rumors regarding this force be carried by it other than those given out by the war department all details with re gard to the force will be released by the department as fast as com patible with the public interests similar force to russia two officers from the regular corps of engineers will be assigned to each regiment but the names of these officers will not be an " nouneed at the present time the railroad corps was proposed by daniel willard president of the bal timore & ohio railroad and a leader in the council of national defense instead of sending the workers as a war board forms here to aid u s 400 citizens in co-operative or ganization will mobilize city's resources for nation's defense j ogden armour heads list of directors four women will serve on governing committee mobilization of chicago's industrial resources and man power in a co ordinate system to aid in the war has begun four hundred representative citi zens met at hotel la salle yesterday and formed the citizens war board of Chicago it will co-operate locally with the war department and the federal gov ernment one object will be to mar shal the city's industrial strength board to settle strikes its duties will range from settling strikes and furnishing employment to apportioning food and tabulating men fit for military duty every commercial religious social and philanthropic organization of the city will co-operate it was assured practically every such organization was represented yesterday . four women to be directors the following directors were el ected and two more women are to be added j ostden armour l wilbur messer frank h armstrong c h martham dr prank billings archbishop georw w b j buffinston mundelein mrs gertrude howe jÂ»hn w o'learj britton h h porter judse jacob m dick g w perhns inson james a * patten b a eckhart harrison b riley john v farwell e l rjerson james b foncan 'â– hlhtv s 1 * e d hulbert john o shedd h g healer a a snracue il samuel m hastinm edward f swift martin huehitt chnrles h wacker samuel insull harrr a wheeler dr harry pratt judson john p wilson thoma d jonee mrs ira couch wood john mÂ«tz the meeting yesterday was called under the direction of harry a wheeler samuel insull john g shedd john v farwell and others in explaining the purpose of the or ganization mr wheeler said in creating this corporation chi cago is offering state and nation the last ounce of her resources of men materials and wealth in the cause of world democracy human ity and international justice for which our allies are battling seek to avoid waste without co-ordination of effort there would be useless waste of time and money and scattering or duplication of effort chicago's resources should be catalogued and mobilized for intel ligent use chicago's wealth should be laid upon the altar of service in sofar as may be necessary ford protege flits with 100,000 gems exconvict trusted by millionaire steals 1,500 carats said to weigh pound sells them here 15,000 worth recovered thief confesses lived in fashion on the proceeds of his loot a pound of diamonds â€” 1,500 carats of glittering gems to tho value of 100 0g0 â€” has been scattered to secret hiding places many of them in chi cago they were stolen from henry ford's automobile factory in detroit the man who took them was one of mr ford's trusted 600 whom he had benevolently rescued from peni tentiaries fifty-six carats were located yes terday at the plant of the western electric company in this city they were valued at 15,000 they had been purchased by the company in good faith the remainder may be hidden any where there are enough detectives loose on scent to recruit henry ford's late peace ship up to a superdread naught but the diamonds haven't been found money no object mr ford has gone the limit in em ploying lawyers and detectives to re cover his missing gems they are growing in value every day and are a necessary adjunct for the immense grinding and delicate cutting in an automobile plant besides mr for is quite willing to spend money to bring to justice ohe who so heartlessly abused his con fidence among the 600 convicts whom henry ford put in his detroit plant was william e masters masters changed in a day from an ex-convict to a trusted employe he changed in a few weeks from a man with a job to automobilist man-about town almost a club fellow he and his wife occupied a handsome cot tage he became the shining example of what hank ford can do with a man who is in the gutter enter the skeptic one day a skeptic upset the train of admiring thought by asking how does he do it investigation brought about the discovery that ford's supply of dia monds was gone masters was called in and questioned he did not lie he looked them straight in the eye and said i took em i sold em all to Chicago fences one was michael koopman 736 stew art building Chicago he comes here for the diamonds the police loaned masters some diamonds and suggested that he send for koopman masters was a good workman he did it the police arrested koopman in the act they say of buying the gems koopman says he bought the stones in good faith then the police asked masters where he sold the rest of the stones au he knew was that they might be found about Chicago my business education was to take things not find em said | masters secretary baker predicts long war cleveland may 7 â€” secretary of war baker speaking here to-day indicated he believed the war will be of long duration this is only the beginning he declared greek troops fight bulgars win 3 miles paris may 7 troops of the venizelos government of greece are now in active service against the bulgars an official statement here to night says venizelist and french troops captured trenches on a front of three miles in the region of lymintsa saturday the next day a greek regiment defeated a bulgar counter attack to win back the positions the venizelist men conducted themselves brilliantly in both en gagements says the report oust hollweg gemmis urge chancellor too weak press in sists hindenburg's appoint ment sought amsterdam may 7 â€” pan-german newspapers in berlin continue their attacks on chancellor von bethmann hollweg the neueste nachrlchten and tageszeitung accuse him of de laying his reply to the reichstag in terpellations regarding germany's war aims until after the stockholm socialist conference ' they advocate holding public meet ings to protest against the chancel lor's weakness when the empire seri ously needs strong guidance hindenbirg for post berne switzerland may 7 â€” ac cording to the volksfreund a baden newspaper there is good ground for recent prophecies that chancellor von bethmann-hollweg will be replaced by field marshal von hlndenburg in conservative centers in germany it is feared that soon the chancellor will side completely with the social democracy and it is considered ur gent to despose him harden demands democracy what is the need of the hour asks maximilian harden in die zu kunft and answers simply our decision to put ger many's house in order in such a way that it will be livable to-mor row for us no longer an object of horror to the whole world the united states wil never fight a germany led bv new men to the goal set by president wilson not because he set this goal but because our existence depends on it â€” demands it â€” must we go toward democracy the responsibility of the peace that must come cannot be carried by a kaiser or by a dynasty but by the whole people â€” the nation democracy cannot be stopped it has become overnight the kaiser's own paramount need egan warns of peace trap copenhagen may 7 â€” maurice francis egan american minister to day said relaxation of american prepared ness now would increase the con tempt of powerful germans to ward the united states peace suggestions by germany now merely aim to eliminate rus sia as a military force and to ob tain the russian larder there is no danger ot dethrone ment of the hohenzollerns in ger many let me emphasize â€” peace talk in america will only prolong the war german empire cracking paris may 7 â€” a gazette de lau sanne editorial says to whoever is able to heat through walls or see through curtains there can be no doubt the german empire is begin ning to crack il points revolutions are always prepared in silence u s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity fair tues day und wednesday not much change in temperature gentle to moderate northeast winds tlmi'eratune r twenty-four torn e'klinÃŸ at 2 a ra : fighest r \ ; lowest 41 average 4s normal tempera urc for the day 54 deficiency in temperature since january 1 os deg'er precipitation for twenty-four hours ending at 7 p in r.nr.e deficiency of tjrecipitation since january 1 3 <- relative humidity 7 a ro 71 2 d m 50 7 p m 37 barometric pressure redi***ed to sea levei 7 a m 30.25 7pm 30.16 pn rise to-day 4-37 sunset 6:56 complete government report cn pai*e 14 spanish craft sunk in fight with u=boat paris may 7 â€” spanish and french fishing boats fought desperately against a german submarine and used guns so ef fectively the u-boat was forced to submerge for a time according to advices from san sebastian spain four fishing boats were sunk the dispatch says a submarine attacked a fish ing fleet of spanish and french craft sinking the french steam fishers verdun and marne both armed with small-caliber guns these guns were used so effect ively that the submarine was com pelled to plunge later it reappeared the verdun and marne were over come and sunk seven sailors are missing two spanish fish ing craft also were sunk rifles for new army lacking representative tilson tells con gress only 66.000 rifles were made in three years washington may 7 â€” the house heard with astonishment to-day that the war department hasn't enough rifles to equip an army representative tilson of connecti cut made this fact clear in explain ing the functions of a veritable ar senal piled up around his desk it included machine guns pistols and rifles of many sorts 600,000 rifles on hand mr tilson said that the war de partment officials told his commit tee that there are on hand but 690 000 of standard springfield rifles all estimates require at least two rifles to the man he explained he also explained that springfield rifles cannot be made fast enough to equip the army when enlisted and that the war department is consid ering the plan of adopting the lee enfield rifles now made here in large quantities for the english army only 66.000 sprlngfields have been manufactured for the united states in three years fail to buy guns well don't you think that is a rather disgraceful state of affairs ?" persisted mr britten i do not know whether you would call it disgraceful answered mr tilson but it is undoubtedly un fortunate the springfield rifle requires 150 different gauges the factories have not the gauges on hand congress appropriated money for making these banges he said but the gauges have not been acquired mr mann of Illinois asked if this country is prepared to keep an ex peditionary force irwfrance supplied with arms and ammunition without any help from england or france and mr tlison replied i think it is doubtful if we could furnish arms and other supplies to a reasonable number of men first u s fighters in trenches wednesday paris may 7 a unit of amer icans officially classified as fighting men will begin work wednesday car rying munitions to the trenches a piatt andrews in charge o the american ambulance corps an nounced this to-day andrews indi cated that the work was being or ganized as a separate branch of the american ambulance corps and that forty-five men a week could be sent to thc front blast in war mill wrecks japanese city san francisco may 7 four thousand residences thirty warehouses and several factories and public buildings were destroyed and fifty persona were killed in an explosion in the munitions sheds in osaka japan sunday the property loss will total several million dollars the cause of the explosion has not been ascertained but alien plot fers are suspected 1 5-cent loaf of bread is here sulzer co announces move other bakers to follow small sizes to go the fifteen-cent loaf of bread has come the carl sulzer company an nounced the future baking of nothing but the fifteen-cent size other big bakers said the new loaf was bound to be adopted the bigger loaf is better for the baker and for the consumer said merrill hutchinson vice president of the company we used to sell three loaves of the ten-cent size to the grocer for twenty-four cents here after for twenty-four cents he trill get two of the new loaves it means a big saving to the baker in produc tion and wrapping â€” and better value to the consumer when the war bread comes we'll have better bread than we have now america loses the best part of the flour to get a pretty white color with the sifting out of the bran we lose the mineral salts the ash and much of the protein with the bran go the best quantities if we adopt the war bread plant it will increase the flour output 137,000,000 bushels a year so in a few days Chicago may expect no more six-cent loaves ln a few days more no ten-cent loaves what saving is realized the bakers say will go into the increased wages won in the recent strike jewish strike settled the jewish bakers strike was set tled yesterday after ten days of idleness more than 600 strikers will return to work this morning they won a 2 increase in pay and an eight and one-half hour day ex-mayor mcclellan of n y made major pfiinceton n j may 7 â€” pro fessor george brinton mcclellan son of major general george b mc clellan of the union forces in the civil war has received a major's commission from the war depart ment he formerly was mayor of new york villistas in attack on morris & co ranch el paso may 7 villistas raided the t o ranch in northern chihua hua owned by morris & co of chi cago to-day ranch houses and stores were looted and hundreds of head of stock driven off american employes are said to have escaped weyerhauser's heir to be army pilot st paul may 7 â€” frederick wey erhauser grandson of the famous lumberman has entered the american aviation service at new haven continued on 2d page 6th column continued on 4th page sth column g|k >^^ nr jt . preserve the people's o^stitutional rights and liberties sign the petition for free speech and free publication on pagte 4 hearst papers will send your votes to washington ___________\\\\ a page of war pictures latest most vivid camera story of the fighting today and every day in the Chicago american a

Chicago examiner vol xv no 118 a m tuesday Chicago may 8 1917 tuesday n.s Â»#Â«^^ nr jt . preserve the people's o^stitutional rights and liberties sign the petition for free speech and free publication on pagte 4 hearst papers will send your votes to washington ___________\\\\ a page of war pictures latest most vivid camera story of the fighting today and every day in the Chicago american a